"The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever."

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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

Malcolm McDowell

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“Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.”

Source : "Ethiopia proves there can be life after death" by Jonathan Dimbleby, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002.
“Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.”
“Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.”
“Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.”
“Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.”
“All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.”
“I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.”
“The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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